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THE FIFTH BOOK OF MOSES CALLED<br/>
<span class=large>DEUTERONOMY</span>
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CHAPTER 26
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Israel shall offer to the Lord a basket of firstfruits of Canaan—They are commanded to keep law of tithing—Israel covenants to keep commandments, and the Lord promises to make them a holy people and a great nation.
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And</span> it shall be, when thou <i>art</i> come in unto the land which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee <i>for</i> an inheritance, and possessest it, and dwellest therein;
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That thou shalt take of the first of all the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/2a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 23: 19; Ex. 34: 26; Num. 18: 13.">fruit</a> of the earth, which thou shalt bring of thy land that the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God giveth thee, and shalt put <i>it</i> in a basket, and shalt go unto the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/2b" mark="b" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 5; 1 Kgs. 8: 29 (26-30).">place</a> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God shall choose to place his name there.
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And thou shalt go unto the priest that shall be in those days, and say unto him, I profess this day unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, that I am come unto the country which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> sware unto our fathers for to give us.
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And the priest shall take the basket out of thine hand, and set it down before the altar of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God.
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And thou shalt speak and say before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, A <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/5a" mark="a" type="Q" title="HEB Aramaean. Abraham migrated to Aram and from there to the land of promise; Gen. 28: 5; Hosea 12: 12.">Syrian</a> ready to perish <i>was</i> my father, and he went down into <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/5b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 47: 4.">Egypt</a>, and sojourned there with a few, and became there a <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/26/5c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Israel, Origins of.">nation</a>, great, mighty, and <sup>d</sup><a href="deut/26/5d" mark="d" type="A" title="Ex. 1: 7.">populous</a>:
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And the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/6a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 1: 11.">Egyptians</a> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/6b" mark="b" type="D" title="OR treated us harshly.">evil</a> entreated us, and afflicted us, and laid upon us hard bondage:
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And when we <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/7a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 2: 23 (23-25).">cried</a> unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> God of our fathers, the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/7b" mark="b" type="A" title="Alma 9: 26.">heard</a> our voice, and looked on our affliction, and our labour, and our <sup>c</sup><a href="deut/26/7c" mark="c" type="B" title="TG Oppression.">oppression</a>:
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/8a" mark="a" type="A" title="Ex. 12: 37, 51; Alma 36: 2.">brought</a> us forth out of Egypt with a mighty hand, and with an outstretched arm, and with great terribleness, and with <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/8b" mark="b" type="A" title="Mosiah 3: 15 (14-15).">signs</a>, and with wonders:
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And he hath brought us into this place, and hath given us this land, <i>even</i> a <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/9a" mark="a" type="A" title="1 Ne. 2: 20.">land</a> that floweth with milk and honey.
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And now, behold, I have brought the firstfruits of the land, which thou, O <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span>, hast given me.  And thou shalt set it before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, and worship before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God:
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And thou shalt <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/11a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 12: 7; 2 Ne. 9: 52.">rejoice</a> in every good <i>thing</i> which the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath given unto thee, and unto thine house, thou, and the Levite, and the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/11b" mark="b" type="P" title="HEB sojourner, proselyte (also v. 12, 13).">stranger</a> that <i>is</i> among you.
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&#182; When thou hast made an end of tithing all the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/12a" mark="a" type="B" title="TG Tithing.">tithes</a> of thine increase the third year, <i>which is</i> the year of tithing, and hast given <i>it</i> unto the Levite, the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, that they may eat within thy <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/12b" mark="b" type="D" title="IE of the cities, towns.">gates</a>, and be filled;
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Then thou shalt say before the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, I have brought away the <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/13a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB consecrated.">hallowed</a> things out of <i>mine</i> house, and also have given them unto the Levite, and unto the stranger, to the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/13b" mark="b" type="A" title="James 1: 27.">fatherless</a>, and to the widow, according to all thy commandments which thou hast commanded me: I have not transgressed thy commandments, neither have I forgotten <i>them:</i>
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I have not eaten thereof in my mourning, neither have I taken away <i>ought</i> thereof for <i>any</i> unclean <i>use,</i> nor given <i>ought</i> thereof for the dead: <i>but</i> I have hearkened to the voice of the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> my God, <i>and</i> have done according to all that thou hast commanded me.
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<sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/15a" mark="a" type="A" title="Isa. 63: 15.">Look</a> down from thy holy habitation, from heaven, and bless thy people Israel, and the land which thou hast given us, as thou swarest unto our fathers, a land that floweth with milk and honey.
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&#182; This day the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God hath commanded thee to do these statutes and <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/16a" mark="a" type="P" title="HEB ordinances (also v. 17).">judgments</a>: thou shalt therefore keep and do them with all thine <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/16b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Commitment.">heart</a>, and with all thy soul.
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Thou hast <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/17a" mark="a" type="E" title="OR declared, testified; Ex. 19: 8.">avouched</a> the <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/17b" mark="b" type="A" title="Gen. 28: 21."><span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span></a> this day to be thy God, and to walk in his ways, and to keep his statutes, and his commandments, and his judgments, and to hearken unto his voice:
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And the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> hath avouched thee this day to be his <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/18a" mark="a" type="F" title="OR treasured; TG Israel, Mission of; TG Peculiar People.">peculiar</a> people, as he hath promised thee, and that <i>thou</i> shouldest keep all his commandments;
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And to make thee <sup>a</sup><a href="deut/26/19a" mark="a" type="A" title="Deut. 28: 1.">high</a> above all nations which he hath made, in praise, and in name, and in honour; and that thou mayest be an <sup>b</sup><a href="deut/26/19b" mark="b" type="B" title="TG Israel, Blessings of.">holy</a> people unto the <span class='smallcaps'>Lord</span> thy God, as he hath spoken.
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